Case Study: Taking Responsibility for Future Driving

Abstract

How can we take responsibility in practice? The previous chapter introduced a toolbox that supports imagining the future social role of technologies: five questions were offered to structure imaginative reflection, some examples of reflective, intersubjective and empirical (behavioral) research methods were explained to support the desired imagination, and some starting points for the collective evaluation of the possible social role of technologies were presented. However, these tools aim to be widely applicable, and, consequently, they need to be clarified and specified for real-life cases. Clarifying and specifying has to be done intersubjectively to obtain a comprehensive and well prioritized evaluation (meaning organizing strategic conferences, consensus conferences, dialogue workshops, and interviews). This chapter explains briefly how the toolbox can generate questions for an intersubjective study on the intelligent car of the future. In other words, the aim of this chapter is to show how applying the toolbox can generate new insights and questions on expected and unexpected social impacts.